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In the Fall of 2017, a number of disreputable web sites ran articles falsely reporting California Governor Jerry Brown was instituting mandatory gay porn viewing in classrooms. Those stories were recirculated in July 2018 when a conspiratorial web site called Point of No Return (which calls for Death to the Illuminati, Secret Societies and New World Order) published a word-for-word rehash of a 28 December 2017 article from notorious junk news purveyor Your News Wire: The stories were spun from a 26 December 2017 Fox News report on a controversy stemming from a new requirement that social sciences courses in California include the role and contributions of gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, even though the identification of some historical figures as such may be based on speculation. The Fox News report included no claim that California had implemented mandatory gay pornography viewing for grade schoolers, and nothing in the related California legislation imposed such a requirement. According to a 9 November 2017 statement released by the California Department of Education, the referenced educational material will teach students to recognize diversity in compliance with the state's 2011 Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Act: Aside from signing the legislation in 2011, Governor Brown had nothing to do with the process of approving instructional materials, according to state education officials: Your News Wire has a track record of aggregating news stories and adding their own salacious but fabricated twists to them. For example, the site falsely reported that actor Macauley Culkin had said satanic Hollywood executives wear shoes made from dead children.
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